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today's a top story sunday review of the week twelve billion euros in the e.u. coming to the rescue of greece's economy all of this while violent protests against approved harsh new cuts shook the country. wanted for crimes against humanity as the international criminal court issues on arrest warrant for the khadafi is the son of the libyan leader lashes out at the decision exclusively telling me that the court is corrupt. the u.s. captain of a gaza flotilla ship is arrested. after several vessels were seized in port following what activists believe is pressure from israel and the united states. of public sector workers who schools airports and job centers across the u.k. as people protested against their pensions being slashed.

and three weeks main headlines a welcome to the program now this week greece erupted into some of the worst civil unrest it's seen as thousands of angry protesters flooded the streets of athens the eurozone has agreed to extend a lifeline to the economically crippled country but people raged against tough new cuts and tax hikes which were needed to secure the second hand out now faced with a twenty eight billion euros worth of austerity measures protesters gathered in front of the parliament building they threw stones at police smashed windows and set fire to property. dozens from both sides were injured while many demonstrators were detained the e.u. and international monetary fund to release an extra twelve billion euros in the next two weeks without the money greece would default on its loans within days but

financial journalist dmitri says that the greek government has simply bought. a stay of execution. i think that people here pretty much given up on the three hundred members of parliament that reside in the in the part of the building across the street from the constitution where i think the only real option for them right now for the protesters and for the greek people is if some sort of political option or a movement develops out of a society out of the ranks of ordinary people who are intelligent or capable who come from universities who have some idea of what the country needs according to scholars here in greece or constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure of constitutional the first place because you need one hundred eighty members of parliament to pass this legislation first of all second of all they can pass whatever they like but if the people don't agree to it and that people are not willing to sit down and take it it doesn't really matter what they pass and that's what we're seeing here right now what you're looking to have happen is you're you're going to see a fall of this government some point i've said of things it really is a really big issue because if if the violence if the casualties not just massive

injuries then that's going to that's going to lead to a collapse of this government will that mean that the next government will come in and actually do something productive maybe maybe not but then they have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down one of the things that is circulating here is a video that shows police not just police brutality with there's a lot of that but also police working with. the escorted into a safe location that they were communicating with and relaying information from there's a report that the head of the pharmaceutical national pharmaceuticals or station here in greece is going to be filing a lawsuit along with other people against the government for use of illegal substances because these weren't just just here gas there were other key. including a strict seating agents and that's why you see a lot of people here myself and a lot of people other people saw them passing out not being able to breathe people inside the metro station not being able to breathe. for that reason people are very

angry here in the very upset and they understand what's going on and they understand these measures are not going to help them and their future. well despite the protests e.u. officials have welcomed the greek austerity measures saying the move will help the country to get back to a path of recovery but it's also finding out many greeks believe the plans are to rescue the banks and not the people. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent a growing louder. it's a war we did not create this tour and we're going to pay for this we want to. squeeze continues to fight against economic ruin second day in. an attempt to prevent inquiries from defaulting on its previous lame attainments that the greek people will be seeing a penny. of money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out. the battlezone save the banks and prevent

a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high they see their income going down they see taxis taxis taxis and nothing else their money does not go to very early a year a struggling against harshest areas he measures has meant the government now faces an electorate opposed to a bailout or people here have been saying is that. the european central bank. financed the initial bailout that scene of one hundred ten billion that you. start looking at ways of continuing to money. if that when it comes to the choice many people now in greece simply don't want their help their actions is being born as the self-interest of the british i'm going to get. so big it out the are going to get

all of this the problem. is the problem i mean they're really property and they are going to give almost everything. below it certainly can it's a high cost for the cuts in public spending raise in taxes and an aggressive privatization program that would mean the sale of many greek public assets one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious hit on their faulty lending policies and it's almost as if there's a whole other holy alliance of politicians and bankers versus ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to. r.t. athens. i mean time eurozone finance ministers are working out the finer details of the athens rescue package but law professor cost us from the university of london says the bailout will effectively hand over greek sovereignty to the e.u.

and the international monetary fund. this measures mean that the salaries and pensions of people in the public sector have been cut up to forty percent. unemployment going up to about sixty percent is forty five percent of huge unemployment which means that the whole generation of young people is being destroyed. a hundred fifty thousand jobs lost in the public sector. but some of the most important utilities is being sold for more difficult on the part of this is an . old. set of questions and politically again with these neo colonial because it is not just the government that has been asked to accept these measures they were insistent demands that the opposition all of the usual parties should accept so we have a situation in which the main bar structure of greece has now

moved from athens to brussels and the other european centers and the greek politicians and the greek public has been after really to implement what they would have been decided then. and that was a law professor cost us to do is in us are talking about how the bailout is taking decisions out of greece's hands. well on monday the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for libya's colonel qadhafi accusing him of crimes against humanity the hague has grounds to believe that he ordered attacks on civilians during the beginning of libya's unrest with schools of thought have been killed the african union has said it will not cooperate with the tribunals demond in an exclusive interview with us here at r.t. talk about the son saif al islam who's also under the rest of the court's arrest warrant says that international justice is nothing more than a sham this course is is it is a mickey mouse court come on the accuse me of killing people everybody knows the sentence. commuted punishment so they decided.

and it did kill my brother and destroyed my house so this is me too excuse so now you are talking about me demands are going to kill me and you are after me every day you are trying to find me and to give me everything and my brother so does the world number two just to tell you that it's a free court. we are trying to negotiate with a deal of this the we have to cure it of the court what does that mean it means it is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to put. political pressure. and you can see that full interview with saif al islam about twenty minutes time here on r.t. of course otherwise you can find it on our website that's dot com. many

libyans feel that the criminal court is just a cover for nato's attempts to kill gadhafi saying it's the alliance's members who should be held to account for the bombing campaign. investigated the consequences of the continuing strikes which are said to be directed only at military targets. the road from the capital tripoli to his lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population fled the bombardment. this is what's left of the civilian airport in the. home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hit. and it's only hit in the targets of military value well say these telecommunications towers so to stop. being destroyed. this is a safe strikes and they've also accidentally. two cars and killed

two civilians. has no t.v. in this area and as we can see the phone lot has also been disrupted. there is no water and no electricity what used to be heaven this man says has become hell towards home now susan samir. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother in such a condition. from least small paul. gas used to flow to europe. we used to produce fuel to send it to them and now see they destroy it all this is terrible and ridiculous at the same time the closer you get to the front line the more you feel it you can hear the war and you can even read it on. jobs just before the bombs arrive. base run so as you can see there is a sign here in arabic that nato is here in libya to enforce and i'll fly zone over

the country to protect civilians on the other side there is another sign also in arabic saying that nato can attack any place at any time. any time happened three times over several hours while we were healing regulators major parties where the front line was dividing the country into two parts into two swear one side is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point to take location gets in a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy all facilities seem to be a red target that nato bombs never land on while it looks like the civilian population can hardly. they were like my family not just going to the shop to buy some food and this happened six of them died i couldn't believe it. and this used

to be a restaurant for all companies staff where friends gathered after work one day and we waiting with my colleagues then there was a boom we knew what that was we tried to help those traps then the helicopters came in and started to shoot at us. from once to need to another stories are repeated reconsidered by our problem i think we don't need a new. lady no to every man every day every day being a big killed our civilians but there's no nothing this country this is from libya well those voices became more and more frequent as the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes drowns them. out t. tripoli preg. now moscow has raised concern over france supplying weapons to libyan rebels and over big u.s. interpretations of the u.n. security council resolution on libya france's admission is the first time that a nato member has owned up to air lifting arms to the country since the beginning

of the campaign russia has also criticized what it calls the double standards being applied to the situation is unfolding in syria and yemen moscow's opposed to adopting a un resolution condemning crackdowns on protesters in syria fearing such a mandate could escalate even more violence foreign minister sergei lavrov said to be continuing turmoil in the two countries is being treated in completely different ways. which has many have been criticizing russia and china's position on the un security council's resolution on syria for the fact that we consider such a resolution in appropriate i'll give you a simple example the situation in yemen is no easier than in syria there's a difficult civil war going on there but nobody's going to the u.n. security council to try and stop it so it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow and still ahead for you in the program here on our no man's land french finance minister christine lagarde steps into the global economy as temple as the first woman ever to have the international monetary

fund. and a rift between allies why pakistan is on a mission to expel the americas drove from within its borders. the captain of the. aid ship has been arrested by greek authorities after trying to leave port without permission several ships with activists and humanitarian aid for the blockaded palestinian territory stopped in the port of para near athens on friday campaigners claim that greece is working under the orders of israel and the u.s. the fertility is drawing parallels to the guards about a convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last year and resulted in any one people and r.t. correspondent is currently on board one of the ships that's been seized says the people are still determined to carry on with their mission despite the actions of greece. or at all but make sure you are the captain of the american ship knew what he was doing and he was determined in his attempt to leave port i talked to the

captain of our ship and he's ready to set c. list soon as he gets permission he says there should be no restraints the lawyers see greece's ban on the ships leaving is unlawful the greek government gave no grounds why it stopped the flotilla in the first place activists remain optimistic they believe the fact that the flotilla has caused such a stir is because the symbol of enormous moral strength israel has been spreading speculation there are chemical weapons on board but if it were true the ships would have been searched every new can cranny the american ship is only carrying three thousand letters to the children of gaza and that's what israel is for you know no it scared the whole mission and drawing so much attention to the unlawful blockade of gaza and it's making phenomenal efforts to stop the ships from getting to their destination point. but was r.t. correspondent are now dashed arc of all of our who's are on board one of the ships stopped by greek authorities from selling to gaza. well thursday the u.k. partly came to

a halt with more than half of all state schools forced to close and destruction brought to the ground transport hundreds of thousands of civil servants took to the streets against the government's plans to slash their pensions and increase the retirement age. lorimer to follow the action. down tools up with industrial action and autumn of discontent starts here this time it's the public sector workers walking out on happy with the planned reform of their pensions which they say will see them paying a lot more and getting a lot less but i think if it even happened. yet if it is somewhat familiar fifty fifty i think it's a. bit changes that it make it a pension or very necessary to fix the way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in things i think. in the pilot teaching french is by so much as it

is these people do a huge variety of key work from teaches and lecturers to air traffic controllers and coast guards unisons the u.k.'s biggest public sector trade union deputy chief paul babel a says his one point three million members already for a prolonged industrial action we're almost a war footing we've got thirty million pain set aside and we've got a strategy work but i must stress that's not what we want to do we want to talk to the government and negotiate a sensible package nor the ridiculous package of their proposal at the moment that package involves raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty six raising pension contributions by workers and having payouts based on average career earnings rather than final salary the unions admit public support is fundamental the government's very unlikely to change its mind about reforms if the public at large doesn't back

the unions but that's by no means a short public sector workers do already get very generous pensions and the cost of those pensions is very much returned to the cockpit and the burden falls on to the next generation. it really is absolutely essential that public sector pensions are reformed and even after they are reformed public sector workers will get better pensions and worst private sector workers the unions want to apply enough pressure to force the government to change its mind and it's no stranger to you turns it was hell bent on reforming the health service too until it decided to take longer to think about it causing friction in the coalition the government is doing this to reduce the current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face the wider issue here according to the u.k. pension fund. is a part of me public sector work it's no don't think that while it may stop you

think that that was so widespread with pepsi. and now with the u.k. p.l.o. the very source of investment just what it means that more than ever your avatar to come to. you without you with us in our twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital christine lagarde has become the first woman at the helm of one of the world's most powerful financial organizations but the new i.m.f. chief isn't shying away from putting the heavy burden of the earth's problems on her shoulders garniture can has more on the implications of the appointment for the global economy. christine lagarde appointment keeps the european at the head of the world's top lender keeping the long held tradition intact and in a debt crisis having one of its own chairing the international monetary fund could be more important than ever for europe saying. intimate knowledge of those mechanisms of the european community and the eurozone of its many leaders

can help the guard's main competitor was i will sting carstens from mexico who argued her point mind would only add to the perception of i.m.f. bias there could be some conflict of interests. they know their main borel's institution will be europe so we'll have a situation where they will rule or stormin eighteen to create their institutional emerging economies the engine of global growth in recent years are vastly under represented in the organization with the u.s. and europe holding half of the votes and veto power and always suggest i am have bias has had a negative effect on the world's economy they would use their monopoly over. to force certain policies. on countries in policies there were not in their actual interest the i.m.f. lends money monitors the global economy and in theory at least prevents crises its

credibility has been shattered by the financial collapse in the advanced economies which it definitely did not spot they missed the two bigger biggest asset bubbles in the history of the world i think they didn't want to go against all their friends on wall street and others that were making a fortune at the time some experts see the intimacy between the i.m.f. and u.s. corporations as a matter of concern all of the big decisions at the i.m.f. are made by the us treasury department then you had of the i.m.f. is more than familiar with the u.s. corporate world for years she worked at a major american law firm representing the interests of big business and is a member of the u.s. poland defense industry working group divest the interests of favor giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal. multi-billion dollar deals you are saying you're bound pristine like are the best for the job so did several emerging

markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past and will struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . bear in mind if you've missed something to be covered on air you can always catch it up on my i had to tell you i was there for you right now a. man in australia gets life behind bars after murdering his two year old daughter to get back at his ex partner but before stopping the child to death he announced his intention on facebook. and get a round up of the action from this year's moscow international film festival where a spanish movie snatch the top prize for all the glitz and glamour just log onto our dot com. egypt's fragile interim leadership is facing the strain with renewed violence on the streets this week officials have ordered

a probe into clashes in cairo which left more than a thousand people injured after recent protests riot police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who pelted officers with stones and firebombs the unrest began over the slow pace of prosecution for senior officials and police officers accused of brutality during the mass uprising in february activists are also calling for the speedy implementation of reforms demanded it during the revolt that toppled president mubarak journalist afshin rattansi says the current leadership is ignoring people's demands. the government such as it is hasn't responded to the concerns of the people there are strikes at the suez canal transportation workers people being killed again on the streets of cairo not a peep out of the corporate media and meanwhile we have william burns in cairo talking with. the provisional head at the moment of the government and even the trial of the interior minister. who is hated so much on the interior minister and also mubarak has been adjourned people are not getting what they thought they were

getting when they toppled hosni mubarak we must remember that joe biden and hillary clinton didn't want also mubarak to go that's wall street mubarak and his cronies so many of them are retaining power and it's a very dangerous situation and we mustn't forget what's crucial here for the international. outlook is this who is going to hell that's where trade goes through and it is the most populous country arab country in the arab world and we're not hearing anything about it in the corporate news it's as if that revolution is done and dusted in the egyptian people of. pakistan has the u.s. to shut down and leave an air base in the country's southwest the facility has served as a launching pad for washington's drone attacks against militants on the volatile afghan border pakistani political analyst. believes that the only way to stop the violence is to end the so-called war on terror. one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of gonna stand border is the

mess that the us military has created inside of coniston over the past decade the mass there the way they have alienated a large portion segment of the afghan population in terms of the push to try to the way they have conducted the war on terror there the way they have alienated a large pockets really of the country is a big reason for why we have a country new ation of violence in afghanistan and how that violence is spilling over into pakistan and most pakistani commentators believe now that one of the ways short short cuts really to controlling violence and extremism on the pakistan afghanistan border is really to end the war on terror the way the u.s. military and the way the cia has been conducting this war over the past ten years one step forward is of course what president obama has declared but you still words we're yet to see really actions on the ground and we have yet to see whether important agencies within the u.s.

government like the central intelligence agency the cia would really cooperate. now let's get to some other world news for you in brief this hour in thailand exit polls show that the opposition party is on course for a major victory in the country's general election the party is headed by the sister of a prime minister the elections hope to end the country's long running political crisis violent protests reputedly shaken thailand since the former government was toppled in a military coup in two thousand and six. as follows chief of the arrest of four senior members of his group suspected of the assassination of former lebanese premier. instead. a special tribunal investigating the death should be asking questions of israel he also rejected each and every accusation by the un based court saying that the charges were an attack on his movement was killed along with the twenty two others in february two thousand and five in beirut when he choose bomb exploded as his motorcade passed by. eleven people including children have been killed in

mexico after tropical storm arlene drenched the country with heavy rains most of the victims died after being buried alive in their homes by mudslides or drowning in powerful streams the atlantic season's a first tropical storm came ashore over mexico's central gulf coast early on thursday where most of three hundred thousand have been left homeless or otherwise affected by the severe weather well actually we bring you our exclusive interview with the libyan leader's son who tells us how the international criminal court is more concerned with policing pursuing justice but first i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories for you in just a moment.